The Latest: No quick order on Nevada gun buyer screening law

February 24, 2018

FILE - In this Jan. 19, 2016 file photo, handguns are displayed at a trade show in Las Vegas. With protesters outside the courthouse calling for action, a Nevada judge is due to hear arguments about a voter-approved gun background-check law that has not been enforced since voters passed it in November 2016. The Friday, Feb. 23, 2018, hearing stems from a lawsuit filed in October, just days after a gunman shot into an open-air concert crowd on the Las Vegas Strip, killing 58 people and injuring hundreds. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Latest on calls for Nevada’s governor and attorney general to enforce a gun background-check law that has not been enforced since it was passed by state voters in November 2016 (all times local):

4:05 p.m.

A Nevada judge made no immediate ruling whether to force state officials to enforce a gun buyer screening law that has not been implemented despite voter approval in November 2016.

Attorney Mark Ferrario, arguing for enforcement, told the judge Friday that for unspecified personal or political reasons, Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval and GOP state Attorney General Adam Laxalt have stalled the law for more than a year.

State Solicitor General Lawrence Van Dyke counters that Nevada can’t force the FBI to expend federal resources to enforce a state law.

The measure would expand background checks to have the FBI screen criminal histories of weapon buyers during private and gun show sales.